Editor's Note 8/22

Then the verbs ran like sparklers along the waterfront
racing the current they mirrored into.
Bruce Bond

Welcome to our eleventh and August issue! Given that it’s August, fresh takes on classic Summer reading and end of Summer themes - among others - seem timely and fitting.

And with this issue, we’re an issue away from our first year anniversary as a journal and as an independent literary press - and that means we’re working on our first yearly print anthology. Keep an eye on our Twitter account, @RedOgreReview, for details!

In this issue, we have poetry by:

Cameron Brooks
Aidan Coleman
Mark DeCarteret
D. Dina Friedman
Catherine Friesen
Srishti Jain
Emma Johnson-Rivard
Jeremy T. Karn
Sandra Kolankiewicz
Christine Kwon
Jacob Minasian
Erin Mizrahi
Tim Moder
Sam Moe
Esther Sadoff
Ron Tobey
Von Wise

Prose poetry by:

Jack Bedell
Janelle Cordero
Jeffrey H. MacLachlan
Tom Velho
Moira Walsh

And visual art by:

J. W. Goossen
Steve Zimmerman

All the best and happy reading,

Matthew Bullen
Founder & Editor-in-Chief

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